The Day of the Triffids
Title Original Broadcast 1st repeat UK Gold Video
Episode One 10th September 1981 7th March 1984 21st July 1996
Episode Two 17th September 1981 14th March 1984 21st July 1996
Episode Three 24th September 1981 21st March 1984 28th July 1996
Episode Four 1st October 1981 28th March 1984 28th July 1996
Episode Five 8th October 1981 4th April 1984 4th August 1996
Episode Six 15th October 1981 11th April 1984 4th August 1996
John Wyndham's deeply humanistic stories were a popular choice for television in the 1980s.
ITV developed Chockey in 1984, and three years earlier the BBC turned in this successful six-part adaptaion of The Day of the Triffids.
Wyndham's classic tale of evil plants taking over the world had been filmed before, as a melodramatic movie in 1963. The TV version was more low-key, almost sober in its approach, bringing out the author's main theme of mankind's response to a holocaust.
Episode One
Recovering in hospital from a blinding triffid sting, Bill Masen, wakes up to an uncanny silence...
Episode Two
His sight restored, Bill sees the new world of blindness and panic menaced by triffids...
Episode Three
Bill and Jo try to find refuge from the panic-striken streets of London and the dangers of the triffids.
Episode Four
Bill finds himself kidnapped, imprisones and seprated from Jo.
Episode Five
Bill continues his search for Jo, through the spreading disease and maurading triffids...
Episode Six
Six years later in the Sussex farmhouse, Bill and Jo find themselves cut off by growing numbers of triffids...
Production Credits
Written by John Wyndhan
Adapted by Douglas Livingstone
Music Christopher Gunning
Film Camerman Peter Hall
Studio Lighting Brian Clement
Designer Victor Meredith
Producer David Maloney
Director Ken Hannam

CAST

Character Actor Episodes
Bill Masen John Duttine 1 2 3 4 5 6
Josella Payton Emma Relph 2 3 5 6
Jack Coker Maurice Colbourne 3 4 5 6
Dr Soames Jonathan Newth 1
Palanguez Robert Robinson 1
Grant Ian Halliburton 1
Young Bill Steve Jonas 1
Newsreel voice Keith alexander 1
Walter Edmund Pegge 1
Nurse Cleo Sylvester 1
John Stephen Yardley 2
Patient Chris Cannon 2
Blind Couple Bonita Beach 2
Alan Helm 2
Jo's atacker Max Faulkner 2
Bettina Caroline Fabbri 2
Shirley Christine Schofield 2
Gang leader Albie Woodington 2
Gang Andrew Ball 2
Mario Renzullo 2
Blind girl Susie Fenwick 2
Car attackers Elizabeth Chambers 2 3
Morris Barry 2 3
Bernie Searle 2 3
Beardley David Swift 3
Tom Desmond Cullum-Jones 3
Tom's wife Beryl Nesbit 3
University gateman Donald Palmeat 3
Major Anderson dennis De Marne 3
Dr Vorless Andrea Miller 3
Alf John Hollis 4 5
Ted John Benfield 4 5
Teenage girl Eva Griffiths 4
Hotel manageress Jean Perkins 4
Manager Joy Rumney 4
Frank Terry Andrews 4
Red-haired man Gary Olsen 4
Woman in street Sally Lahee 4
Dying man Gordon Case 4
Miss Durrant Perliya Neilson 5
Vicar Christopher Owen 5
Mary Brent Jenny Lipman 5
Dennis Brent Desmond Adams 5
Susan Emily Dean 5
Susan (older) Lorna Charles 6
David Denis Gilmore 6
Alice Claire Ballard 6


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Changes last made on: Fri Sep 13 18:05:51 1996